Podokesaurus

Podokesaurus, very small carnivorous (theropod) dinosaur found as a single specimen in rocks dated to the Early Jurassic Period (200 million to about 175 million years ago) of Massachusetts, North America. Podokesaurus is known only as a partial specimen that was discovered in the 1800s and preserved in Mt. Holyoke College, but was destroyed by a fire decades ago; casts of the specimen are all that remain. The animal was about 1.5 m (5 feet) long and was very lightly built. A better known relative, Coelophysis, known from the Late Triassic of western North America, was about 2.5 m (8 feet) long and weighed 18 to 23 kg (40 to 50 pounds) Syntarsus, of similar size and from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and western North America, may be the same animal as Podokesaurus.